"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen."
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Moskowitz, Ron (October 30, 1970). "Professor Sees Peril in Education". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 13.
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Roger A. Freeman (economist)
Roger A. Freeman (September 2, 1904—December 25, 1991) was an Austrian-American economist who served as an advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a special assistant in the Nixon administration, and an advisor to then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Freeman specialized in public finance within the neoclassical liberal tradition. He was a critic of the welfare state, an advocate for welfare reform, and a defender of fiscal conservatism.
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